Red Sox facing long travel day Monday

BOSTON -- The Red Sox will endure their most difficult travel day of the season on Monday, leaving for San Francisco at around 10 a.m. and playing the Giants that night.

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Tim Britton
Posted Aug. 18, 2013 @ 6:12 pm

BOSTON -- The Red Sox will endure their most difficult travel day of the season on Monday, leaving for San Francisco at around 10 a.m. and playing the Giants that night.

Typically, Boston travels for a road trip immediately after the preceding game. But with a late-night game with the Yankees before a cross-country trip, manager John Farrell and his team decided to postpone leaving until the morning. The hope is to grab some sleep at home Sunday night.

"We recognize what the schedule is," said Farrell. "Guys were all for it."

Farrell said part of the inspiration for the travel switch was a similar scenario in 2007. After dropping a Sunday night game to the Yankees at home, the Red Sox immediately flew to Oakland for a game the next day. They lost the first three of the series to the A's.

"[We] went to Oakland and felt the effects for three or four days following," Farrell said. "I just felt like the priority was to make sure a good night's sleep was here, get some rest and we'll travel tomorrow to show up and play."

"It's nothing really," said Shane Victorino.

The Red Sox did send Jon Lester, Jake Peavy and David Ross out ahead of the team on Sunday. Lester and Peavy are the scheduled starters for Monday and Tuesday, and Ross is set to be activated from the disabled list Monday.